This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
August 4.
Soup - Potage a la Reine (5 qts 40 cents.)
Fillets of trout, a la Chambord (4 lbs, with forcemeat etc. 70 cents.)
Potatoes, Monaco.
Boiled ham with spinach (3 orders ham, 9 spinach 13 cents.)
Roast beef (1 rib, 2 ibs net 28 cents.)
Mutton a la Bretonne (No 849 shoulder 2 lbs and beans 30 cents.) Chicken pie (5 chickens $1.00, with crust etc, $1.20.)
Green peas 15, mashed turnips 5 rice 5, potatoes 15 (40 cents.)
Birdsnest pudding with cream (No 851; about 28 cents.)
Lemon pie (No 852; 3 medium size 30 cents.
Vanilla ice cream (2 qts pure, and freezing 65 cents.)
Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, pickles, (35 cents.)
Cake assorted kinds d lb 10 cents.)
Milk, buttermilk, cream (45 cents.)
 
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